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Dust shell in effective loop quantum black hole model

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-08-26 v3

Abstract

In this work, the dynamics of a dust shell in an effective theory of spherically symmetric gravity containing quantum corrections from loop quantum gravity is investigated. To provide a consistent framework for including the dust, we go beyond the standard formulation of the effective theory by introducing an action that includes not only the effective Hamiltonian constraint, but also the diffeomorphism constraint, along with appropriate gauge-fixing and boundary terms. By adding the dust shell action and substituting vacuum solutions for the interior and exterior regions, we derive a reduced action in which only the shell radius x\mathfrak{x} and the exterior black hole mass appear as dynamical variables. Varying the reduced action yields the evolution equation for x\mathfrak{x}, which is then solved numerically to explore the dynamical properties of the dust shell and the continuity properties of the metric. Finally, our approach is compared with previous studies to highlight key differences and improvements.

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@article{arxiv.2506.04589,
  title  = {Dust shell in effective loop quantum black hole model},
  author = {Hanno Sahlmann and Cong Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.04589},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

10+6 pages, 6 figures; Revisions in v3: Clarified the distinction between our work and earlier studies, and added several derivations. Revisions in v2: Two typos that could lead to completely different interpretations have been corrected

R2 v1 2026-07-01T03:00:31.365Z